The Migration-Ageing Nexus: provincial-level case studies from China and Japan

我提出的项目，将借鉴我的本科和硕士培训，将审查省级内部迁移和中国和日本人口老龄化之间的关系。重点将放在这两种情况下选定的一些省份；在可能的情况下，这些省份是典型的“城市”和“农村”经验的代表。这两个国家都在发生人口老龄化，尽管考虑到日本人口中更大比例被认为是老年人，因此，将两者进行比较可以预见中国的情况。采用这种方法将使该项目具有很大的政策相关性。通过量化方法，该项目将探索人口老龄化加速或减速与年轻人口迁移到中国和日本其他省份之间的间接关系。将使用关于移徙和老龄化的各种指标来最大限度地验证成果。将同样重视纵向数据，通过相关数据集的生活史模块(例如中国的CHARLS和日本的JStar)实现这一点。这将使我能够获得关于早期生活事件和行为的丰富信息，以及晚年的健康结果和护理提供来源。还打算在一名翻译的协助下，对两国受成年子女移徙影响的少数老年人进行面对面的互补性访谈，以进行验证和方法学研究。

My proposed project, drawing upon my undergraduate and Masters training, will examine the relationship between provincial-level internal migration and population ageing in China and Japan. The focus will be on a select number of provinces in both of these contexts; provinces that are, where possible, representative of the typical 'urban' and 'rural' experience. Population ageing is occurring in both countries, although given a greater proportion of Japan's population is deemed to be elderly, comparison between the two could therefore offer foresight into China's circumstances. Adopting such an approach will afford the project with great policy relevance. Through quantitative methodologies, the project will explore the indirect relationship of acceleration or deceleration of population ageing through migration of younger individuals to other provinces within China and Japan. Various indicators of both migration and ageing will be used to offer maximum validation of results. There will be a similar emphasis on longitudinal data, made possible by the life history modules of the relevant datasets (e.g. CHARLS in China and JSTAR in Japan). This will grant me access to rich information with regard to life events and behaviours during early-life, as well as health outcomes and sources of care provision in later-life. Intentions are to also conduct complementary face-to-face interviews with a small number of older individuals in the two countries who have been affected by the migration of adult children, with the assistance of a translator, for validation and methodological purposes.